Vernal Express | 1980-04-17 | Page 17 | Salt Lake City Group Plans Basin Tar Sands Plant

jglt Lake City group plans jflsin tar sands plant hCTOup hopes to have a pilot !'l'?Sctioning by September to p J from tar sands deposits in (v!lah Basin. lacobsen, a Salt Lake City :';CYcer has organized the verify veri-fy about 30 of his colleagues on !- e have invested in it, he said, lacobson reported he owns in the Whiterocks deposit of ; about 20 miles jiorth of ! u'lnaddition to the oil content, a two samples have been ' j and found to contain .069 and Vesper ton of gold, as well as 1.82 d silver. Wt know if the gold content is in the deposit, but any metals we recover will be a jffrom the oil extraction," Mr. rson said. c resorted he and his partners are ;,g j Corporatfon to go public on rfure. r.. extraction method chosen is an of Phil Kraemer, Ontario, "h Demonstrated at Deseret Inn, 'ifs a revolving drum (this one '"-our feet long) tilted at an angle. --implistic explanation, the crushed !aBis (bitumen in sandstone) are ('soaked with a solvent, such as -naptha, in a vertical tiopper, ,'led into the lower end of the "vingdrum as additional solvent is i "jo the higher end of the drum. He solvent flows downward it ves the bitumen out of the rock, : -xidue of clean sand being expelled tj'higii end of the vessel, while the at and bitumen flow out the lower ( inventor said 99 percent of the solvent is recovered, through heating it to vapor form and then cooling it back into liquid, for reuse in the process. The test project at Whiterocks, scheduled for September, will involve processing 200 cubic yards of tar sands a day for recovery of approximately 150 barrels of oil, Mr. Jacobson said. The cost just for separation of the oil not including mining, crushing equipment